Reception
The family invites you to a reception following the memorial at Town Hall from 1 pm to 5 pm.Town Hall
2340 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 20007

Parking
Parking will be very limited, please consider other options before driving. Information on the limited National Cathedral parking garage can be found here.

Luggage Storage
For passengers coming to or from the airport, the National Cathedral will not allow the storage of luggage on premise for security reasons. Please do not bring luggage to the National Cathedral as you will not be allowed to enter the building. Town Hall, the venue for the post-memorial reception, has generously offered to hold luggage for memorial attendees. Town Hall’s address is 2340 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 20007.

This ongoing support is helping to guarantee that Jake and Mary Katharine’s children will be fully provided for as they grow up, go to school, and pursue their passions. We are deeply moved and humbled. Thank you and God bless.

Tributes

“I am heartbroken at the tragic loss of one of my advisors, Jake Brewer. We set out to recruit the best of the best to join their government and help us harness the power of technology and data to innovate new solutions for the 21st century. Simply put, Jake was one of the best. Armed with a brilliant mind, a big heart, and an insatiable desire to give back, Jake devoted his life to empowering people and making government work better for them. He worked to give citizens a louder voice in our society. He engaged our striving immigrants. He pushed for more transparency in our democracy. And he sought to expand opportunity for all. I’ve often said that today’s younger generation is smarter, more determined, and more capable of making a difference than I was as a young man. Jake was proof of that. Michelle and I are praying for all of Jake’s family and his many friends, most of all his wife, Mary Katharine Ham, their daughter, Georgia, and their growing family. They’ll always have a family here at the White House.”

“Throughout his career, Jake traveled across the country and around the world collaborating with teammates to help improve the lives of others. His story is filled with high impact adventures in service, inclusion and “doing.” He was an awesome addition to the White House family.”

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest on the passing of Jake Brewer

“Sunlight then helped get Code for America off the ground, and Jake came to work with us that first year, on a project we did to help veterans find jobs that matched their skills. He was so proud to wear his Code for America track jacket, and so beloved by the team he guided from DC, who were delighted to find someone both so operationally astute and savvy in the ways of Federal government but also so genuine, caring, and at ease in the world of tech. Jake served as an informal advisor, cheerleader, connector, and champion in all his subsequent work, including most recently, the tour of duty he’d just begun in the office where I spent a year, the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the White House.”

“I didn’t know Jake, only his wonderful, talented spouse, who has been part of the Salem Media Group family for most of the past decade and a frequent guest and guest host on my radio show along with her close friend and now co-author Guy Benson. Mary Katharine’s infectious good humor has captured hearts as diverse as Bill O’Reilly’s and Juan Williams’, but it belonged only to Jake and their children.”

“Today it isn’t just progressives like me who are mourning him, but some libertarians and conservatives are mourning too, because Jake was both personally and professionally someone who saw beyond the red-blue divide. He was searching for a way forward, not left or right. Like many of us, he felt in his gut that the Internet offered a new and better way of doing things, including government. And now the best tribute I can imagine to him is that we try to continue his work. May his memory be a blessing.”

About Jake

Brewer, of Alexandria, Virginia, was a senior policy adviser in the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House and previously worked as the director of external affairs at Change.org.

“Armed with a brilliant mind, a big heart, and an insatiable desire to give back, Jake devoted his life to empowering people and making government work better for them. He worked to give citizens a louder voice in our society. He engaged our striving immigrants. He pushed for more transparency in our democracy. And he sought to expand opportunity for all,” President Obama said in a statement.

Jake is survived by his wife Mary Katharine Brewer and daughter Georgia.